Forty Acres Insider: February 22

Howdy Longhorn Family,

It certain was an impressive Monday evening visiting with y’all, and I wish to personally thank everybody who joined us in our annual Town Hall! It’s what we name our “stakeholders meeting” for Longhorn Nation, the very best followers within the nation, and we had been in a position to share all the pleasure that is occurring on the Forty Acres. I had an opportunity to the touch on the nice accomplishments of this previous yr, the ever-so-successful current, and a future that is so brilliant you may want shades!

But, earlier than we soar into the recap of the occasion on this particular version of the Forty Acres Insider — which can be going to extra of a month-to-month or periodic format within the spring — here is to one other sensational week that began with a terrific Tuesday evening and convincing victories for our Baseball (12-2 over Texas A&M-CC) and Men’s Basketball (72-54 over Iowa State) squads. 

Big 12 Championships will happen beginning right this moment as Swimming & Diving hosts the Big 12 Championships Wednesday-Saturday on the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center, and Track & Field heads west to Lubbock to compete for the indoor titles on Friday and Saturday. Streaks can be on the road for our Longhorns as we put together to Light that Tower Orange some extra, my mates. Coach Reese, our sensible, educated and seasoned visionary I affectionately name, “Yoda,” has gained all 26 Big 12 Championships and an unprecedented string of 43 convention crowns in-a-row on the Men’s Swimming & Diving facet. Coach Capitani is an ideal 10-for-10 in Women’s Swimming & Diving league championships throughout her tenure on the Forty Acres and going for 11-straight. Coach Flo and Track & Field are in search of a sixth consecutive ladies’s crown and third in a row for the boys as our Horns search to drag off the double-championship for a outstanding third straight yr. And, there’s extra! Baseball, Softball and Men’s and Women’s Tennis are all in motion proper right here in Austin, whereas Men’s and Women’s Basketball and Men’s Golf will take their reveals on the highway this weekend as effectively. There’s an entire lot to cheer for within the Burnt Orange and White, so let’s get these Horns Up and Hook ‘Em!

Now again to the Town Hall and revisiting that particular evening; I had a blast answering so a lot of your questions…

If you did not have an opportunity to affix us, you may view the complete dialogue right here.

It has been a very outstanding yr that included profitable the LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup for the second consecutive yr!  What an outstanding 2021-22 season that included a program-tying report 4 nationwide championships (Men’s Indoor Track & Field, Women’s Tennis, Rowing, and Men’s Golf), six NCAA Runner Ups, 14 Top-10 finishes, and 84 First-Team All Americans.  After dethroning Stanford’s 25-year reign of the Directors’ Cup a yr in the past, I’m so pleased with our student-athletes, coaches, and workers for remaining decided, placing us ready to win day by day, and retaining the trophy on the Forty Acres as soon as once more!  

As we flip the web page to this season, we’ve got already achieved a lot together with our 2022 nationwide championship in Volleyball, two Big 12 championships, and our soccer program returning to the postseason throughout Coach Sark’s second season.  Currently, we’ve got 11 groups ranked with 9 of them amongst the Top 10 of their respective sports activities.  That’s excellence, people!

And the success off the sector by our student-athletes is equally as spectacular.  Our groups registered a cumulative GPA of over 3.0 for all sports activities mixed with over 100 student-athletes graduating final yr and 75% of our athletes holding a 3.0 or larger cumulative GPA. I’m additionally very proud to their dedication in serving our group as they logged over 2,000 hours of group service.  Major kudos to Dr. Marnie Binfield and all of our scholar companies group for offering wonderful help to empower our student-athletes to be the easiest model of themselves.   

Being a Longhorn is not a fleeting determination; it is a lifetime dedication stuffed with pleasure, ardour, and loyalty.  Join us once more this in DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium to uphold the profitable custom that may by no means be entrusted to the timid or the weak, as a result of Texas lives inside every of us eternally!

Yesterday’s Town Hall additionally coincided with some of the thrilling occasions of the yr…the launch of 2023 Texas Football season ticket renewals! Longhorn Nation introduced it to DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium in a giant means this previous season, serving to us common over 100,000 followers for the primary time in our illustrious historical past whereas additionally promoting out 5 residence video games.  I am unable to wait to see you again on the Forty Acres, having fun with the sights and sounds of Bevo Blvd, Longhorn City Limits, Smokey’s Midway, Hook ‘Em Hangout and all the pageantry that makes soccer gamedays the very best school soccer expertise within the nation!

For those that are renewing their season tickets, listed below are some key factors:

• Your season ticket price has decreased, whereas your per seat-related reward, if relevant, stays the identical. 
• Longhorn Foundation members ought to view the new Benefits Chart for brand new enhancements together with elevated membership worth in any respect ranges, year-round advantages and experiences, and enhanced precedence soccer ticket limits.  Benefits differ at designated membership ranges.
• This season, Longhorn Foundation members should make a minimal reward of $200 for soccer parking entry and a minimal reward of $500 to have assured precedence for Oklahoma tickets.
• Requests for tickets to the Oklahoma recreation and away video games, if eligible, in addition to buying seatbacks in your seats at Darrell Ok Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium will happen in April.  
• Fans who decide in to the four-month cost plan will robotically be enrolled within the auto renewal course of, making it fast and straightforward to resume your season tickets in future years.    
• Renewing your season tickets for the 2023 season is the one strategy to assure your season tickets for the 2024 season after we start play within the Southeastern Conference.

The deadline to resume your season tickets is March 23, and you are able to do so on-line at TexasSports activities.com/Renewals or by calling us at 512-471-3333 (Monday via Friday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Central). Keep an eye fixed in your mailboxes this week for extra information.

New Football season ticket deposits are going quick!

For those that do not have season tickets at present however wish to safe your spot, season ticket deposits are on sale now for $199 per seat, which can be utilized towards your season ticket buy. This ensures you entry to be first in line after season ticket holders in loyalty level order to decide on seats later this spring. Don’t wait, as over 2,500 Longhorns have already made a dedication to simply us this fall! 

Orange-White Game set for April 15

Don’t overlook to mark your calendar and be part of us on Saturday, April 15, for the annual Texas Football Orange-White Game offered by Texas One Fund.  The motion will kick off at 9 a.m. with Bevo Blvd offered by H-E-B, Longhorn City Limits offered by Still Austin Whiskey, Smokey’s Midway, and Hook ‘Em Hangout.  It’s all a part of ‘Made in Austin’ Weekend on the Forty Acres which coincides with the University’s Family Weekend.  We’re so excited to welcome everybody to the Forty Acres for a jam-packed weekend.

There’s an entire lot of burnt orange and white in motion on April 15^th together with:

Women’s Tennis vs. Baylor at 11 a.m. on the Texas Tennis Center

Football Orange-White Game at 1 p.m. at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium

Softball vs. Kansas at 4:30 p.m. at Red & Charline McCombs Field

Men’s Tennis vs. TCU at 7 p.m. on the Texas Tennis Center

Soccer vs. Oklahoma (Exhibition) at 7 p.m. at Myers Stadium

Stay tuned for extra particulars on all the weekend’s actions that can be shared as we get nearer.

Facility and gameday enhancements on the best way!

This upcoming season can be our last athletics season within the Big 12 Conference.  We are extraordinarily pleased with all of the recollections and relationships we’ve got made alongside our companions within the league for the previous 27 seasons.  We sit up for you becoming a member of us in the course of the 2023-24 athletics season as we have a good time new recollections earlier than we move to the Southeastern Conference efficient July 1, 2024.  We are enthusiastic about our future, and we’re grateful for the generosity of our Longhorn Foundation members who’ve been spectacular.  With your continued help, we’re in a position to make this transfer and proceed to spend money on our implausible amenities.  I’m excited to announce some vital enhancements which can be on the best way together with:

• A coloured LED lighting system at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium starting this season
• A bigger videoboard in proper area at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, prepared for the 2024 baseball season
• New scoreboards on the north and south courts of the Texas Tennis Center that can be put in later this spring
• A brand new soccer recruiting lounge on the south facet of the Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletic Complex
• New lettering alongside the partitions contained in the DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium bowl

Secure your seats for 10K for 10K on Feb. 27

While I’ve acquired you, we’re lower than one week away from the second annual 10K for 10K as Women’s Basketball takes on Baylor on Monday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. at Moody Center.  It’s the common season residence finale, and Big 12 Championship implications are on the road!  Coach Schaefer has graciously pledged $10,000 to the Neighborhood Longhorns Program if 10,000 followers fill Moody Center and the matching donations proceed to come back in with over $60K pledged to date.  Get those tickets now, cheer on the Horns on Senior Night, and assist us fill the Mood!

Remembering Red McCombs On a extra somber notice, we misplaced a real pioneer and Longhorn legend in Red McCombs this previous Sunday.  Born in Spur, Texas, he was larger-than-life with a ardour for the University of Texas and Texas Athletics that’s unequalled.  One of essentially the most completed businessmen and beneficiant benefactors to his group, Red McCombs’ title is memorialized on the Forty Acres at Red & Charline McCombs Field, the Red McCombs Red Zone, and the McCombs School of Business.

Hook ‘Em Horns,

Chris Del Conte